Can't seem to write to LOG...

[duartix]

I'm using PHP 5.5.1 and CodeIgniter 2.1.4-

 

On one of my controllers, I've got the following code:

    public function logout() {
        error_log("LOGOUT!");
    }

The problem is that this "LOGOUT!" message never appears in my log file: C:\xampp\htdocs\glup2\application\logs\log-2013-11-14.php

 

I've tried raising the error log threshold, but it's not working.

My config.php is as follows:

$config['log_threshold'] = 4;
$config['log_path'] = '';
$config['log_date_format'] = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';

All sorts of debug messages (like class loading and helper loads) get to the log, but not my LOGOUT message.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

TIA.

[Ch0cu3r]

The log_path is set to nothing

$config['log_path'] = '';

How does error_log() know to write to the log file located in C:\xampp\htdocs\glup2\application\logs

 

error_log is not a native PHP or CodeIgniter function. Is this your own custom function? If its maybe post the source code here.

[duartix]

I thought it was native: http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php

There is a comment section in config.php just before that attribution, that goes like this:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Error Logging Directory Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Leave this BLANK unless you would like to set something other than the default
| application/logs/ folder. Use a full server path with trailing slash.
|
*/
$config['log_path'] = '';

I just omitted it for the sake of readability. 

 

However I doubt the problem is with that, as it is writing the log file wherever I set it to write to. 

[duartix]

Solved.

Switched from error_log (PHP) to log_message (CodeIgniter).

It's working.

Thanks for the lead!